First theorized by PR Wallace in 1947, realized by Andre Geim and Konstantin Novoselov in 2004, and awarded a Nobel Prize for Physics in 2010 it’s a material that’s made from carbon…

There’s a great deal of money funding research, and there are many practical uses for the material that we’re likely to see marketed soon — the potential has been touted to be enormous… but the expectations that graphene is a replacemnt for silicon might be a little over stated.